BYU PSA compares porn addiction to real war

Brigham Young University released a video PSA that is being ridiculed for its merging of an anti-pornography message with real war.

The video features a student who has seemingly succumbed to porn binging, staring blankly at his laptop screen and leaving his door open.

Things soon take a turn for the weird (weirder?) when BYU President Kim B. Clark, who has been narrating the video, says, “The young man is spiritually wounded on the battlefield of the Great War.”

Then the scene switches to a World War II-era battlefield in a deep forest. Our porn-addled young man is apparently wounded, sitting against a tree as bullets and explosions can be heard in the background.

A fellow “soldier” sees our struggling victim through his binoculars and races to save him. The scene then switches to back to the dorm room. Our soldier is really a concerned friend/roommate and directs our porn-binger to an on-campus counselor.

A parody video has since been released and BYU has closed comments on the YouTube video.

Reems and Lovelace in a scene from "Deep Throat." (Photo By Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Reems and Lovelace in a scene from "Deep Throat." (Photo By Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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